Brock Pierce

I'm normally running three to 10 meetings at a time. I just pile them all up. I have no schedule and everybody just kind of meets at the same time. It sometimes makes people who are really important in their minds very uncomfortable because they're used to getting an automatic three hours alone.

American Businessman

Helen Oyeyemi

I think, basically, what I'm good for is reading - a lot. I think I'll always be more of a reader than a writer, definitely. There are sooo many books in the world I haven't read, sometimes I feel as if they're all piled on top of my head weighing me down and saying, 'Hurry up.

British Novelist

Patty Murray

I'll be at the table, as I've been, willing to talk to any Republican who says, 'Look, my country is more important, this pile of bills is not going to go away, the challenges that we have is not going to disappear, we need to cross that divide.' I'm ready. I'm waiting.

American Politician

Steve Buscemi

Character actors just pile up the credits because you work on a movie for, like, a few days. It's not like I'm the lead in everything I do - far from it. I'm not spending three or four months on a picture; I'm spending three or four weeks. Sometimes three or four days.

American Actor

Danica Patrick

I think the more yellows, the more lights, the better. It alerts everybody. I mean, I guess I'm always a little bit afraid when the yellow comes out, we all get out of it, that someone won't notice it, pile into the back of you.

American Driver

Pooja Bedi

We need to celebrate our lives. One day, we're all going to be dead and gone, and be nothing more than a pile of ashes. This is one life we've got and the only way to live it is to live it up shamelessly and joyously.

Indian Actress

Charlotte Dujardin

The fan mail I get every day is incredible. It piles through the door from not just Britain but everywhere. It is so great to have that support behind me - everyone says I am an inspiration. It is great.

British Athlete

Alice Ripley

My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.

Barbara Walters

I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

American Journalist

Kameron Hurley

Authors are often sent a number of books to read for possible review and advance praise. It can be easy for new books to get lost in the pile.

American Writer

Picture a stack of objects in disarray, like items dropped rather than placed.

Visual Imagery

'Pile' often suggests the items aren't neatly arranged, indicating disorganization.

Conveys Messiness

A 'pile' can imply an overwhelming or daunting quantity of something to tackle.

Overwhelming Amount

When referring to an amount of work or obligations, 'pile' is usually metaphorical, not physical.

Not Literal

'Pile' for buildings is casual, evoking a sense of old, large, possibly rambling properties.

Colloquial for Buildings

As a verb, 'pile' carries the action of stacking items, not necessarily with precision.

Action of Stacking

'Pile up' means to accumulate over time, often leading to disorder or backlog.

Can Increase

In construction, a 'pile' is a strong, supportive element buried for foundation strength.

Construction Support

This definition of 'pile' is specialized; common use outside of engineering is rare.

Technical Usage

In conversational English, 'pile' can mean a considerable expense or burden.

Idiomatic Expense

 cumulus, heap or pile, and stratus, layer or sheet. But that wasn't the clever part. Clouds are constantly changing, merging, rising, falling, and spreading throughout the atmosphere, rarely maintaining the same shapes for more than a few minutes.

How did clouds get their...

 If they balance, the third coin is fake. Otherwise, look at their marks. If they are plus coins, the heavier one is the imposter. If they are marked with minus, it's the lighter one. But what if the first two piles you weigh don't balance?

Can you solve the...

 to germinate it goes through cassery's gut and once it's done that it is obviously food out and it is able to grow in its own little pile of casserole fertilizer australia's wildlife is found nowhere else it's incredibly special so what i

Filming The World's...

 do things that touch other people right but we're so eager to add another tweet and do another thing and put another thing on the pile cause it's safer it gives us a way to protect ourselves now we make the menu longer instead of

Learning is bravery PIPE...

 up and up and it's just incredible to think that the bats have been creating this pile probably for thousands of years and it's just been getting bigger and deeper and steeper and cockroaches love it they're just

Filming Inside a Cave...

 So, they leave seashells near the rubbish piles to help the homeless crustaceans. The crab normally winds its body into the spiral of a shell. It's far harder to grip a straight and slippery can.

Hermit Crabs Use Litter...

 A defence system of soldier ants ready to act at any sign of danger. A digestive system processing piles of food deep inside. Even a coordinated system for dealing with all the waste.

Army Ants Rampage...

 But he said "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion." I love that.

Bring on the learning...

 First, Psyche was told to sort a huge, messy pile of seeds in a single night. Just as she was abandoning hope, an ant colony took pity on her and helped with the work.

The myth of Cupid and...

 the caterpillar survives, it wakes up, it crawls on the top of the pile of cocoons and it spins that additional layer of protective silk. And the reason for this,

Pile

A number of things placed on top of each other in an untidy way.

Often appears as...

A large amount of something.

Often appears as...

A large building or group of buildings.

Usage tips

To put things on top of each other to form a pile.

Often appears as...

A long, heavy post driven into the ground to support a structure.

Usage tips

An expense or trouble.

Usage tips

Visual Imagery

Conveys Messiness

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